James Gordon (New York)

James Gordon (31 October 1739-17 January 1810) was a member of the US House of Representatives (F-NY 6) from 1791 to 1793 (succeeding Jeremiah Van Rensselaer and preceding Ezekiel Gilbert) and from NY-9 from 1793 to 1795 (preceding John Williams).

Biography
James Gordon was born in Killead, County Antrim, Ireland in 1739, and he settled in Schenectady, New York in 1758, where he traded with Native American tribes. He served as a Lieutenant-Colonel in the New York Militia during the American Revolutionary War, and he was imprisoned by the British in Quebec from 1780 to 1783. He went on to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1791 to 1795, and he died in 1810.